SSH tunnel to home network, and access router web interface

I'm trying to use an ssh tunnel from a remote location to connect to my home network and access the router web interface.

I have SSH access to the home network, and I can connect to the gateway machine "Lounge". (e.g. 192.168.1.100)

What would I need to do to proxy web requests to the router (192.168.1.1) on the home network, via "Lounge", so that I can view it from the remote location?

If it makes a difference, the "Lounge" machine is running OS X.

I want an ssh / command-line only solution to this, thanks.

ocodo

Posted 2011-08-31T04:46:23.770

Reputation: 1 672

Answers

Download putty if you don't already have it, the format you need for this is:

putty -ssh username@publicip -pw password -L localport:privateip:destinationport

Here is what you would use to get to 192.168.1.1 remotely through SSH:

putty -ssh username@publicip -pw password -L 8080:192.168.1.1:80

You could then open up a web browser to 127.0.0.1:8080 on the computer you created the tunnel with and up would pop the router interface.

MaQleod

Posted 2011-08-31T04:46:23.770

Reputation: 12 560

If I do that, I get redirected to the router page of my current network (Not the remote one). If I do it with every other webpage, it works. Any solution? – Emanuel Graf – 2019-10-08T13:54:19.920

1putty is cross platform, I have done this from a linux box as well as from a windows box, and I have done it through many operating systems. The operating system should not matter on the SSH server or on the client you are using to connect. – MaQleod – 2011-08-31T06:27:06.617

The straight ssh command for this without puTTY is...

ssh user@host -L localport:routerip:remoteport

and then open http://localhost:localport in your browser.

Thanks to MaQleod for showing me the ssh switches.

(P.S. Don't go putting passwords in plaintext! avoid the -pw switch)

ocodo

Posted 2011-08-31T04:46:23.770

Reputation: 1 672